One of the ideas behind my post on political apathy was "outrage fatigue", which the Onion satirically wrote aboutover a decade ago by describing liberals reactions to all the Bush-era stuff that was going on at the time. I guess it's kind of an old concept, and perhaps it's more of a liberal problem than anything, but it generally feels like a sense of exhaustion and apathy about whatever issue is currently center-stage. It's frustrating because I feel like I'd like to be more outraged at things like Trump tweeting "Any negative polls are fake news", but I just don't have it in me. I think part of it is a rational response to the results of previous outrage, i.e. nothing. Outrage, opinion pieces, protests. These things accomplish nothing when literally 50% of people disagree with every fiber of your being. I'm done here. #politics